USS Benham (DD-397)

USS Benham (DD-397) was a US Navy destroyer that was launched from the Federal Shipbuilding and Dry Dock Company in Kearny, New Jersey on 16 April 1938. The ship was named for the American Civil War admiral Andrew E. K. Benham, and it missed the Attack on Pearl Harbor before serving off Hawaii during the Doolittle Raid. It operated during the Battle of Midway and the landings on Guadalcanal, and the ship was torpedoed at the Naval Battle of Guadalcanal on 15 November 1942. USS Gwin (DD-433) rescued the survivors before sinking the hulk by shell-fire.